JAN 24, Monday, Visit village of El Quelite
Val spent part of the morning cutting fruits into a bowl while I went to Al who is having problems with his converter now. Louise did laundry then in the afternoon we all went to a small village up Hwy 15 north called El Quelite (kway-lee-tay). Another neat and very clean village about half hour drive from our site. The houses were very colourful with lots of plants, huge ferns and colourful flowers. There was the usual church and Central park with a nice large gazebo. There was also a big playground attached to it, well maintained and cleaned. The shops were quaint and full of little trinkets and vases and masks. There were also about 4 restaurant, two of which catered to gringos with fancy yards and seating arrangements (see pictures 70B) We stopped at the second one and had lunch there, reason being that this was the one recommended to us by a fellow RV’ers. The food was excellent and Val had a cheese fondue as this is what this town is known for...its cheese. The meal began with little tortillas cover with cheese and meat then we had our orders and they served us desert afterwards. As we were having our beer, we were served a plate of different cheeses made here.
We walked the town some more and looked in every stores then walked back to the vehicles which we had left at the entrance to the village. There was a statue there with a Mayan and what looked like a soccer ball, there was also a huge painting in the restaurant depicting the deadly game they played. See this link to find out more: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/mayanballgame.htm
We came home but first stopped at the sign that says “Tropic de Cancer” so that Louise could take a picture. Happy hour with A&B then dinner time; a very nice day indeed!
JAN 25, Tuesday, Mazatlan
L&D wanted to go for some groceries so we tagged along. We went for lunch at this neat little restaurant which served all kinds of pork roast meat (Cerdo Acerdo). We ordered ¾ kilo of pork meat which was served with tortillas, 3 different kind of onion mixture, green pepper, mayonnaise, a spicy sauce and a cerveza of course. The idea was to make each ourselves a tortilla then eat it. It was fun and very much filling. The best thing, it was cheap!
From here we went to the mall and found the guy that does signs and had a couple made. Mine is of a guy, a girl and a dog...guess who!? I also had a sign made that has our blog address on it which I will post on the back of “Bear”. Afterwards we went to get our groceries then came home in time to join the group happy hour. Almost the whole park got together at Glen’s place where we had pizza’s from Domino Pizza. They were all very good.
AL and Brenda decided to have a fire afterwards and we joined them. D& L decided to go in...They are pretty excited as their daughter and husband arrive tomorrow.
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